South African man shocked to find another woman in dead wife’s casket

Published: February 1, 2013

Staff at a funeral home in South Africa accidentally put a different woman’s body inside a coffin that should have contained the body of Michael Galant’s 58-year-old wife Magdalene. Getty Images file photo

London, Feb 1 (IANS) A man in South Africa was horrified when he opened the casket at his dead wife’s funeral and found a stranger inside.

Staff at a funeral home accidentally put a different woman’s body inside a coffin that should have contained the body of Michael Galant’s 58-year-old wife Magdalene, the Daily Mail in England reported.